| 1846 - 670 sider
...that in letting one villain escape they are the immediate instruments of bringing evil directly on many innocent persons, as Pythagoras says, they would...either, he shall imitate the indulgence of Scipio toward the crimes of Pleminius, or the atrocity of the Carthaginians in the torments they inflicted... | |
| 1846 - 668 sider
...that in letting one villain escape they are the immediate instruments of bringing evil directly on many innocent persons, as Pythagoras says, they would...either, he shall imitate the indulgence of Scipio toward the crimes of Pleminius, or the atrocity of the Carthaginians in the torments they inflicted... | |
| 1846 - 730 sider
...while compassion is sometimes a crime. Let the citizen, then," he adds, " beware of the similarity of names : let him not mistake severity for cruelty,...for clemency, but esteem himself clement or severe, according as motives of equity or the public good call for modification of the punishment." This (which... | |
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